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LOS ANGELES, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- AnnaLynne McCord has signed on for a multiple-episode, guest-starring role on the Texas-set drama series "Dallas," TNT announced Thursday.
"McCord, most recently seen as Naomi Clark on '90210,' will play Heather, a 20-something ranch hand with a troubled ex-husband and a 5-year-old son," a synopsis said. "Having grown up in a house with four brothers, Heather is quite capable of handling herself around the Southfork ranch hands, but when her ex-husband returns, bringing turmoil back into her life, Christopher steps in, helping Heather resolve the conflict, and the two become involved in a romantic relationship."
Season 3 of the show is to begin this winter.
The series stars Patrick Duffy as Bobby Ewing, senior member of the Ewing family following the death of his older brother, J.R., played by the late Larry Hagman. Linda Gray stars as Sue Ellen, J.R.'s former wife and the mother of his son, John Ross, played by Josh Henderson. Jesse Metcalfe plays Christopher, Bobby's adopted son, who is newly single and determined to make a name for himself and his wealthy family in the world of natural gas.

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The first prize, the Nordic Council of Ministers Award will be handed over at a ceremony in Copenhagen on 5 June by His Royal Highness The Crown Prince of Denmark.
The winner receives a 5,000 euro cash prize and the ad will be published in many European newspaper which have joined the UN in a media partnership
The top 30 ads, which can be seen in a gallery by clicking here, will be displayed on the competition website, exhibited worldwide and placed in European print media.
The purpose of the Drop by Drop competition is to create a print advertisement that inspires others to preserve water, now and for future generations.
The European ad competition is part of The Future We Want, the UN's global campaign leading up to the Rio+20 Conference in June 2012.
Judging by the number of newspaper ads created by Europeans across the continent - over 3500, there is no doubt that access to clean water is an essential part of the Future We Want.
The first two prizes in the advertising competition have now been decided.
Eszter Szigethy of Hungary has won the Youth Prize in the Drop by Drop Ad Competition for her entry Save Earthlings.
In the public vote almost 80,000 votes were cast and "Save your children" by Turkish graphic designer Toprak Onur is the Public Prize winner.
Drop by Drop is an initiative of the UN Regional Information Centre (UNRIC), in partnership with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and with the support of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
The Brussels based United Nations Regional Information Centre for Western Europe - UNRIC provides information on UN activities to the countries of the region. It also provides liaison with institutions of the European Union in the field of information. Its outreach activities extend to all segments of society and joint campaigns, projects and events are organized with partners including the EU, governments, the media, NGOs, schools and local authorities.
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Ken Langone blasts regulation, Spitzer and the New York TimesMay 14, 2014: 11:05 PM ET
Home Depot co-founder and billionaire Ken Langone was the first big name to speak at a high-profile hedge fund conference in Las Vegas Wednesday, and boy did he come out swinging.
His targets: regulation, Eliot Spitzer and the New York Times.
"We're being strangled by regulation," Langone said at the Skybridge Alternatives Investment conference, known as SALT. "We don't understand in America how bad regulation has become."
He cited overly strict bank lending rules as the reason many young people can't get home loans, despite their good credit.
Related: Chris Dodd: My financial legislation isn't perfect
Langone lamented that nowadays when he looks at a company or investment, he is forced to consider the impact of regulation. "I never did that before," he claimed.
While Langone did admit that Wall Street was in many ways responsible for the financial crisis, he feels that regulation in the wake of the crash has gone to far.
"We blew it by the excesses we allowed to happen, no doubt about it," he said, adding that the undoing of the Glass Stegall act in the late 1990s made the markets deregulated to a fault. However, "we're now at the highest point of regulation," he declared.
On Spitzer, the former New York Governor who once tried to prosecute Langone for his role in formulating the severance package of the then head of the New York Stock Exchange, Langone didn't mince words.
"I don't like him now, but if I can project how I feel when he dies, I'll probably feel better," Langone remarked. "There is a creature of regulation," he added.
While it didn't seem like he had planned to take on the New York Times, Langone couldn't resist when alluding to an article he read in the paper recently. "Thank god it's dying, I don't like their politics," he swiped.
As he's done in the past, Langone came to the defense of the wealthy. "You're in the 1%, there's nothing wrong with that," he told the audience of hedge fund managers and investors. "You can do so much more with money than pay your taxes."
Related: Investor compares U.S. wealth debate to Nazi Germany
Still, Langone is optimistic about the future, and said the economy should be back at full steam in five to 10 years. And the best investment opportunities are right here in America, he believes.
As for all that regulation, "we will fix it, it always happens that way," he predicted.
Langone also gave a nod to his blue collar roots, and affirmed that success comes from hard work, not necessarily raw brain power.
"The world is run by C students," he asserted. "There are a lot of geniuses out there, but there's a hell of a lot more dopes out there like me."


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Announcing the new openSUSE Board
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The election committee announces the three new members of the openSUSE
* Bryen Yunashko (non-Novell seat)
* Pavol Rusnak (Novell seat)
* Rupert Horstkötter (non-Novell seat)
These three will serve two-year terms beginning on December 22nd.
Stephen Shaw and Bryen Yunashko have completed their terms on the Board.
In addition to those seats, a new seat has been added to the Board
effective with the inauguration of the new Board. The full Board will
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* Bryen Yunashko
* Henne Vogelsang
* Michael Löffler (chair)
* Pascal Bleser
* Pavol Rusnak
* Rupert Horstkötter
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The Special Investigations Unit from the Mercer County Prosecutor's Office arrested Corey Burke, 41, of Trenton, and seized roughly $1,000 in narcotics on Tuesday.
At 3:30 p.m., Burke was seen by officers driving his white 2008 Lexus when he was stopped and detained on South Broad and Federal Streets.
SIU, with assistance from the Mercer County Sheriff's Office and the Hamilton and Trenton police departments, executed a search warrant at Burke's home on Washington Street. In the living room, police found a loaded H&K .45 handgun with additional bullets for the weapon being found in a diaper. Ten grams of powder cocaine were found in kitchen drawer, along with a small amount of marijuana and a digital scale. $1,161 in cash was found in a coffee pot and $400 was found in a night stand. When Burke was arrested, he had $165 on his person and his Lexus was seized as drug proceeds.
Burke has been charged with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession with intent to distribute, possession of a weapon while commiting a narcotics offense, certain persons not to have a weapon, possession of marijuana under 50 grams and possession of drug paraphrenalia. He is in the Mercer County Correction Center in lieu of $125,000 bail.


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Sam Smith to sing at the Melbourne Cup
Grammy Award winner Sam Smith will perform at the Melbourne Cup.
The British superstar will sing two of his hits in the Mounting Yard ahead of the big race at Flemington Racecourse on November 6.
"Fans flock to the Melbourne Cup Carnival not just for the world-class racing but also the fantastic Cup Day atmosphere and Sam Smith will no doubt delight racegoers," VRC Chief Executive Officer Neil Wilson said.
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Posts Tagged 'Lynn Root'
I'm speaking as an editor/manuscript consultant. Whether you are writing fiction or narrative non-fiction, employing dialogue that not only represents each character's personality but also gives clues in an entertaining way will move your story forward.
How important is dialogue in a memoir or novel? Re-read your favorite story and study the author's techniques.
When I'm not editing for my wonderful clients, I study dialogue in movies.
Since a script usually doesn't offer narrative or internal monologue to supplement "words" the way a book does, dialogue (and how the lines are delivered) is an essential component in story-telling. I love smart dialogue.
In the movie Woman Chases Man (1937), protagonist Virginia Travis, a starving architect (Miriam Hopkins) sees three portraits in the living room of B.J. Nolan (Charles Winninger).
Virginia: (She sees a portrait of a little boy holding Pilgram's Progress) "Who's that?"
BJ: "My son Kenneth."
Virginia: (She's looking at the second portrait–a teenage boy holding the same book) " Another son?"
BJ: "Same one. Age sixteen."
Virginia: "Must be a slow reader."
Virginia: (She looks at third portrait–a young man in his cap and gown, holding diploma) "I see he finished the book."
BJ: "Yeah, he has the checkbook now."
Virginia: "I had a checkbook once."
The story is launched, with B. J. and Virginia scheming to get Kenneth (Joel McCrae) to sign a check. By the way, young Broderick Crawford's portrayal of Hunk (friend of Virginia, disguising as B.J.'s butler) is hilarious.
Screen play by Joseph Anthony, Mannie Seff and David Hertz
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In Cold Comfort Farm (1995) screenplay by Malcolm Bradbury, from the novel by Stella Gibbons (1930s), protagonist Flora Poste (recently orphaned) moves to the country to live with her relatives so that she can live on her modest 100 pounds a year and be a novelist. Flora's relations are odd in deed. The mysterious matriarch, Flora's Great Aunt Ada, doesn't leave her room because she suffers from a terrifying memory of an event. As a girl, Ada had seen "something nasty in the wood shed" and now decades later she still has recurring nightmares. Flora is the first person to ask Aunt Ada questions, which serves as the turning point in the story. As it turns out, Aunt Ada doesn't remember what she saw. But she won't let go of her suffering (or let her family leave the farm either).
Toward the end of the story when a movie Czar Mr. Neck comes to the farm to take her grandson Seth to Hollywood . . . Great Aunt Ada comes running out of the house . . .
Great Aunt Ada : "I saw something nasty in the wood shed."
Mr. Neck: "Sure you did, but did they see you Baby?"
Coach Teresa here. I emailed my friend Margaret Davis (author of Straight Down the Middle) to ask her if she has seen the movie and Margaret replied:
"My mother had a selection of novels in our house when I was growing up. I was an avid reader, and I read, and reread, many of them over and over. I knew Cold Comfort Farm by heart! I also enjoyed Stella Gibbons's book Nightingale Wood (also knew it by heart as a child!), and I know my own writing is definitely influenced by her."
Happy New Year & New Writing Energy to Everyone!
Remember to employ dialogue that not only represents each character's personality but also gives clues in an entertaining way to move your story forward.
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A British oil worker has been shot dead in an attempted carjacking in Brazil.
Scot Peter Campsie, 48, was killed by two gunmen in Rio de Janeiro as he returned home to his family following a business meeting.
The operations manager for Diamond Offshore Drilling International was shot twice as he tried to flee his Lexus on Wednesday, the Press and Journal reported.
Mr Campsie, from Montrose, Angus, had worked in Brazil for 16 years and lived in the city of Macae, north of Rio, with his wife and 10-year-old daughter.
He is survived by two sons and his mother, brother and sister in Scotland.
In a family statement to the P&J, they said: "He was a man who loved life and and brought so much joy and laughter to those around him.
"Wherever Pete went, the good times followed. A darkness has fallen on us all as we try and make sense of why Pete had to die in the prime of his life.
"He was a loyal friend and father, brother and son who cared deeply about making sure everyone got the best out of their lives. Our anchor has been pulled away so cruelly."
It is understood Mr Campsie died at the scene of the attack in the late afternoon in the Niteroi municipality. The gunmen fled empty-handed.
A spokeswoman for the Foreign and Commonwealth Office said: "We were made aware of the death of a British national in Brazil on April 2.
"We stand ready to provide consular assistance to the family at this difficult time."


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GateHouse News Service National Budget for 12/1,2/07 editions
GateHouse News Service National Budget For 12/1,2/07 editions Here are the top national stories coming today from GateHouse News Service. Stories are available at http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/. Please submit stories below no later than 6 pm local time, unless you have breaking news that is changing significantly. NOTE: JEAN HODGES is off this week. Contacts: Michael Toeset, 630-835-8870, 708-785-4355, firstname.lastname@example.com --Lifestyles/Entertainment-- FRANK JOHNSON: Weekly video game column. This week: Why movies don't make good games. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/video_games/x540387382 VIDEO VAULT: Before Will Smith's "I Am Legend" opens this month in theaters, check out Charlton Heston's 1971 version of the same Richard Matheson novel – "Omega Man." http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/entertainment/dvds_cds/x805320856 FAMILY PHOTOS: Creating memorable family portraits can be a labor of love, lesson in patience. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/x805317767 FIGHT OF HER LIFE: 'They didn't think I'd amount to anything' – Grandmother fights her way back to wellness after debilitating accident. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/lifestyle/x895213250 --Opinions-- Journal-Standard publisher Stephen Trosley's column will now be posted on the GHNS site. Several recent columns are posted: - http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x1122982474 - http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x118354976 - http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/columnists/x2128345990 EDITORIAL: A new clarification of war powers might result in a more intensive public debate before the next war. Still, it won't substitute for political backbone in a dangerous time. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/editorials/x118355417 EDITORIAL: There's just something about American presidents in their last year. It's as if they wake up one morning with that nagging thought: What's that one thing I've forgotten to do? Wait, it'll come to me. Oh, yeah, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/opinions/editorials/x118355529 FOR SUNDAY: RICK HOLMES: What can be done to reverse Bush and Cheney's expansion of presidential powers? MetroWest, 6 p.m. --Sports-- AROUND THE NBA: Weekly roundup from Canton. / Afternoon / Pro Basketball AROUND THE NFL: Weekly roundup from Canton. / Afternoon / Pro Football MIKE NADEL: Sunday-for-Monday story from Bears vs. Giants. / Mike Nadel, Pro Football, etc. --News-- THIS WEEK IN WEIRD: Missing cranes, dumb criminals and a raucous family feud are featured in this week's edition of Weird. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x1091748519 FIGHTING BACK: Missouri woman fends off attack in Wal-Mart parking lot, then helps track down suspect. With mugshot and sidebar. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x118355393 HONORING NIGHTCLUB VICTIMS: Survivor of deadly R.I. nightclub fire honors victims with auto restoration. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/x805320570 DO GOOD SCOUT: (w/pic) Tayler McGillis, the 13-year-old Cub Scout from Toluca that has received accolades for his collecting of aluminum cans for recycling instead of being placed into landfills, is at his good deeds again. Taylor has used money from the can collecting to purchase enough energy-saving lightbulbs for the 1,280 people in his hometown. He'll be handing out the bulbs Saturday at the American Legion Hall. We'll hook up with Tayler today and talk to him about his efforts. SMITH. PEORIA/Illinois News. --Business-- BIZ BITS: Weekly business rail, this week with a twist on the year's hottest toys (the nottest toys), tech tips and more. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/x540386941 WORKWISE: Professional growth through community service. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/x2031282440 TALKING CARS: Weekly auto Q&A. Faulty electronic emission control equipment. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/x118354944 MAKING CENTS: Don't sign till you've read it all. Napolitano column. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/x1091748499 GIFT TRAP: Holiday gift cards can be money-draining traps. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/personal_finance/x1846406711 TIP OF THE WEEK: Use old gift cards to shop for others. http://www.gatehousenewsservice.com/news/business/consumer_news/x187562118


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What should the US Supreme Court do when facing a contested moral issue? In today's rulings in two same-sex marriage cases, the court decided to add its voice to the public discussion, rather than either remain silent or offer a definitive ruling that might end additional democratic development. The court thus demonstrated its power to participate in ongoing public discourse, without drowning out further debate.
Specifically, the court today acknowledged that states have the right to define marriage, and struck down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) that denied federal benefits to gay couples legally married under state law.
In another case, it found that proponents of California's Proposition 8, which defined marriage as between a man and a woman, had no legal right to contest a lower court's overturning of Proposition 8.
The decisions – both narrow 5-4 rulings – benefit gay marriage without ruling explicitly on its constitutionality.
In addressing controversial social matters, this court apparently fears getting ahead of social change, but neither does it wish to be left behind.
That has not always been the case. Roe v. Wade, the controversial 1973 decision establishing a constitutional right to abortion, is often cited as the court's anticipating a moral consensus that failed to emerge. In Bowers v. Hardwick in 1986, by contrast, the court rejected a right to same-sex intimacy in language that in retrospect appears harsh and intrusive. The court was burdened by Bowers for 17 years, until its overruling in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003. The Roe controversy continues to this day.
When dealing with highly charged social issues, one tactic at the court's disposal is simply to avoid an issue and await further legislative activity. Inaction, however, also has its price. A court that is seen to ignore injustice may lose its legitimacy in the eyes of the people.
Today's decisions in the same-sex marriage cases demonstrate that the court has a vital additional option.
A majority of justices can indicate endorsement of a particular constitutional value, without mandating its enforcement throughout the nation. The justices can thus avoid the twin perils of remaining silent in the face of injustice or commanding immediate acceptance of their constitutional vision. They can shape the tide of public opinion, even as they avoid getting too far behind or ahead of it.
That's what the court did today. In the California case of Hollingsworth v. Perry, which directly raised the constitutional right to same-sex marriage, the court did remain silent, finding procedural grounds on which to dismiss the appeal.
But in United States v. Windsor, the DOMA case, the majority spoke in clear and ringing tones. While avoiding a direct decision on the constitutional issue, the court embraced same-sex marriage, employing the same appreciative language for same-sex couples that it used to describe traditional forms of familial connection.
The majority opinion of Justice Anthony Kennedy repeatedly invokes the "dignity" of same-sex couples and criticizes DOMA for divesting "married same-sex couples of the duties and responsibilities that are an essential part of married life." Justice Kennedy decries the federal statute for demeaning "the couple, whose moral and sexual choices the Constitution protects."
And yet, the court limits it ruling to marriages recognized by state law. Congress cannot discriminate against these state-sanctioned unions, the court holds. The court does not answer the central question of whether states, themselves, can limit marriage to opposite-sex couples. The inference from the court's opinion, though, seems clear. If the federal government cannot "discriminate" against same-sex marriages, state "discrimination" seems similarly suspect.
The import of the court's language was clear to Justice Antonin Scalia. His vituperative dissent derides the court for duplicity in implying a federal right to same-sex marriage, while claiming to decide only the much narrower question of federal deference to state marriage law.
Justices Kennedy and Scalia have been down this road before. In Romer v. Evans in 1996, Justice Kennedy wrote the court's opinion striking down a Colorado law based on its animus against homosexuals. Justice Scalia dissented, accusing the court of disingenuously ignoring the broader implications of its decision.
Those implications were later realized in Justice Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence v. Texas in 2003 establishing a right to same-sex sexual intimacy. In his dissent in Lawrence, Justice Scalia claimed that the court was setting the stage for a constitutional right to same-sex marriage.
In this area, Justice Kennedy has led the court on a slow and steady path, insisting on the equal dignity of gays and lesbians, while moving cautiously in promulgating federal constitutional commands. We will see if Justice Scalia is correct about where this path will lead. In the meantime, even without a federal right, the court's rhetoric of dignity and equality stands strong.
Robert A. Schapiro is dean and Asa Griggs Candler professor of law at Emory University School of Law.


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If you're like me, you get bombarded with invitations every week to spend time with product and services vendors. Spending some time with your core vendors makes sense. And keeping a close eye on developments in critical areas of technology and services is necessary to let you make strategic choices--or, at least, to validate your current decisions and road maps. (For more guidance on evaluating vendors, consult CIO Insight's 2011 Vendor Value Study.)
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Coming round in critical care and my brain recovering from the pressure was a very strange experience. I could hear all sorts of strange noises and thought the hospital was made by Nintendo, and that magic was being performed on other patients to fix them. I was also convinced the nurses were tying to kill me, and at one time when I was trying to use a bed pan to go to the loo, convinced myself that I was being filmed for a hidden camera show as I could hear laughing, and I tried to pull all my cannulas out as I thought it was all a joke!
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I have briefly been back to work which I found hard but am on annual leave at the moment, and not looking forward to going back next week. Definitely don't feel 100% and from reading on here, could take a long time.
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COVER- Still filthy, still fun: The respectable John Waters
In the 1970s, John Waters was the bad boy of fringe filmmaking with his cult-classic, X-rated Pink Flamingos. Flash forward more than 30 years, and he's the guest of honor at Mr. Jefferson's U, and the Virginia Film Festival is showing the now NC-17-rated picture that still you don't recommend for your mama– unless she's one of those who fell under the sway of Waters' magical filth so many decades ago.
Waters moved from extreme film to mainstream in 1988 with Hairspray, which is also being screened at this year's film fest. He's made 16 movies, including Serial Mom and Cry-Baby, written five books, published collections of his photographs, released music compilations such as A John Waters Christmas, and staged art exhibits.
And over the years, he's crossed paths with some of the most memorable characters of the late 20th century: Divine, Manson follower Leslie Van Houten, kidnaped heiress Patty Hearst, and Johnny Depp.
Baltimore, his hometown, has been the setting for most of his movies. Some people see Baltimore through the lens of The Wire; our Charm City has always been Waters tinged. But we catch up with him recently by phone in New York.
Hook: What did you do today in New York?
John Waters: This morning, I wrote my 10 best films list for Artforum. Yesterday, I had to write a speech that I gave for the design awards last night that I gave to a company called Boym, which builds these little things called Buildings of Disaster, which are four-inch, nickel-plated replicas of everything from the Oklahoma federal building to Waco to the Unabomber's cabin, and I presented them with the award. And today– every morning I have to think up something and sell it in the afternoon– and this morning, I just turned in the copy-edited version of my book, which I've been working on for two-and-a-half years. It's called Role Models, and it comes out next May from Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It's my memoirs told through people that have excited me and impressed me, everybody from Dora the lesbian stripper in Baltimore to Tennessee Williams to Madalyn Murray O'Hare to St. Catherine of Sienna. Quite a pack.
Hook: We read an excerpt of that.
John Waters: It was Leslie Van Houten...
Hook: It was quite revealing.
John Waters: Well, that's probably the only serious chapter in the book. The only thing that's happened new from that chapter is one of the three [Manson] women has died recently. Susan Atkins would have been the last of the three to get out, but she's the first to get out. In a box.
Hook: What should have been obvious to us was that Multiple Maniacs and Pink Flamingos were inspired by the Manson–
John Waters: Were influenced, not inspired, influenced by. Multiple Maniacs– we took credit for the crime before they caught them. That's really horrible. And come to think of it, Multiple Maniacs was a dress rehearsal for Pink Flamingos, I mean, Divine ate a cow heart in that; that was training wheels. It glorified violence in a comic way which people had not really done then, for a hippie audience. So what it was was punk, but we were just five years too early.
Now you can go to the drugstore in middle America and buy the exact same hair color that Mink Stole had and David Lochary wore in Pink Flamingos. At the time, they had to strip their hair of all color and dye it with magic marker and peacock blue fountain pen ink to get that color.
What's interesting to me about that movie– it's not my best movie, but certainly it will be right in the first paragraph of my obituary, no matter what I do the rest of my life– it didn't get nicer. Nineteen-year-olds today have the same reaction to that movie as 19-year-olds did in 1972. So I'm proud of that. That's hard to pull off.
Hook: So how do college students react today?
John Waters: When I go to colleges– and I go a lot– the average age, even in New York, if I have a new DVD come out and I do a signing, the average age is 23, and I'm 63. So that has always been the only crossover that counts to me. When they use the word crossover in the movie business, they mean money, they mean going over to middle America. I've only had one movie that did that. It was Hairspray. But oddly enough, they all play on television now. Who would have ever imagined that?
And you look at that movie, and what has changed. It was supposedly shocking they sold babies to lesbian couples. Now lesbian couples have more kids than Catholics. That's really the only thing that's different. Of course when they kidnaped the girls and impregnated them, that's still not politically correct.
Eating dog sh*t was not technically illegal then, and that's why we did it, because that's the year Deep Throat became legal, but as a joke– what can you do that is worse than pornography but isn't illegal yet. And it is illegal now.
Hook: Really?
John Waters: Yeah. In porno, there's only three things [you can't do]– two things, now. They can show urine, and it didn't used to be. They can't show sh*t or pedophilia. But the difference is, we certainly were not doing it for sexual reasons. There's nothing sexual about that scene. It's about anarchy. The same way I've always said Johnny Knoxville [of Jackass] would have done that if I hadn't. But he didn't have to. And I've told him that.
Hook: At the film festival here in Charlottesville, Pink Flamingos is going to follow Hairspray.
John Waters: [Laughs.] That's kind of an interesting double feature. I totally understand that they're opposite ends of the spectrum of John Waters movies. But I think they're the same. They talk about an outsider winning, an outsider being confident, about minding your own business, what's right should be right, and don't judge other people. Pink Flamingos says it in a much more aggressive way, and Hairspray says it in a much more socially redeeming way. But I didn't plot that.
When I wrote Hairspray, Divine was supposed to be both the mother and the daughter, kind of like the Parent Trap. But Divine was 40 or so when we made that movie. So he was the mother.
But in Female Trouble, which we made in 1974, he was 28 or 30, but he then played a teenage high school girl and it was quite funny. That movie is probably the most popular and the most long lasting of my Divine movies. I think it's a better movie than Pink Flamingos.
Hook: When was the last time you were in Charlottesville?
John Waters: When I came to visit Sissy Spacek to see if she'd be in my movie, and she didn't.
Hook: Which one?
John Waters: Let me think. It was probably Pecker. I didn't take it personally.
My two sisters live in Virginia. One lives in Alexandria, and the other one lives very deep in Virginia. I'll tell you where. I'm looking it up. I go there all the time. I'm going there for Thanksgiving. I just can't remember the name of that town...
And both my sisters went to Sweet Briar, and my mother went to Sweet Briar. And it's certainly an irony that I get invited there to speak.
She lives in Bridgewater, Virginia. It's in the middle of the Bible Belt. My sister loves it. I go there every Thanksgiving. It's very near a turkey Auschwitz. There's the most shocking turkey, poultry [facility]. Really, it is Auschwitz, and it's really booming right before Thanksgiving. It's not especially empty. But we always go by it, and it's always so alarming for me to see it, and it really is huge.
Hook: At least your turkey will be fresh.
John Waters: I guess she got it there.
Hook: Back to your memoir. There's this one line. You say you're "guilty of using the Manson murders in a jokey, smart-ass way in my earlier films without the slightest feeling for the victims' families or the lives of the brainwashed Manson killer kids who were also victims in this sad and terrible case." What caused that realization, or have you had a change of perspective?
John Waters: I went to that trial, and to me, it was the first real media sensation, way before OJ. It was greatly theatrical, and at the same time, the Manson family was everything every parent was worried their kids would turn out to be. And then I taught in prison, and I took it seriously. I read books about victims. And so it wasn't anything that happened over night. Doesn't everybody do things when they're young that they regret? I don't regret any of that, but I look back on it and realize it was kind of wrong-headed.
But what has happened since then is that no one knew that Manson was going to turn into a Halloween costume, that it would never end. Even Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor, he said in the original Helter Skelter that the girls would do 20 years.
It gets more and more notorious each day. Susan Atkins dies, and then Polanski gets arrested. The story never ends. And one hopes, if Manson dies, will that help Leslie? But I say he'll outlive Keith Richards. It is a story whose endless running time is way beyond the expiration time everybody thought it would have.
Getting to know Leslie, to look back on that and imagine, because she really believed, it's almost impossible to understand that they thought they were doing the right thing. And now, what can she say? It's the most horrible, horrible kind of realization ever to come to terms with. And yet, she can never ever change that, and she's changed everything else she possibly can. She has become now the woman she would have been if she hadn't met him.
I have always been drawn to extreme lives, and to questions with no fair answer. If there's a fair answer or easy answer, I'm not that interested.
Hook: What was the last thing that shocked you?
John Waters: I like to be shocked at contemporary art. The kind I like makes me mad, and then I end up buying it. I saw [Lars von Trier's] Antichrist and I loved the movie. It's like an old-fashioned shocker. I don't like reality TV. Most of it is offensive to me because it's classist, and it's asking you to feel superior to the people you're laughing at, and I really don't think I did that in my movies. And reality shows almost always do. And people's endless capacity for humiliation to be famous was new at the beginning but it's getting really tired as a subject matter.
Hook: Yeah, you covered that so long ago.
John Waters: Yeah. I don't really feel bad for them any more. I just click. I don't want to watch it.
Hook: So can we expect another movie from you?
John Waters: I hope. But I don't know any director in my world that is getting a $5- to 7-million independent film made today. There aren't any. If you look at Sundance this year, only one or two movies sold for over a million dollars. Toronto this year– nobody bought anything. New Line, all the companies I dealt with are gone.
But I'm in the middle of it. I'm thinking up a whole new one. I've got two, really, and I just had a meeting about them yesterday. I don't give up. I've been doing this for 40-something years. Fruitcake, my children's Christmas movie has almost gone twice and fallen through at the last minute. I think it will [get made] eventually, but the economy has played havoc on independent film.
Hook: That's too bad because we heard you speak years ago and you mentioned the trouble getting funding.
John Waters: It's never been easy to get a movie made in my whole life. Once it was. Cry-Baby, because Hairspray had just come out, and it was a hit. That was the only time. And the only time I really had enough money was Serial Mom. But I'm not whining. Because if it was easy, wouldn't everybody make movies? They think they can get laid, they'd go to good parties, they'd get to travel first class– wouldn't every person in the world? There'd be no other careers. Everybody would like to be a film director. You get to boss people around, and you get to travel. But the reality of it, even James Cameron, when he was making Titanic, he had to put his own money in at the end.
Hook: You mentioned Cry-Baby, and we have to ask the obvious. What was it like to work with Johnny Depp?
John Waters: Johnny didn't want to be a teen idol, and he was at the time. I said, come with us, and we'll make fun of it. The same way I did in that movie for Traci Lords. She was escaping porn; and I said, let's make fun of it. Patty Hearst– who wants to be a famous victim? She said she'd never signed an autograph until she made a movie with me. Who wants to sign an autograph because you were kidnapped? I had a critic once at the beginning of my career who said it wasn't fair that I beat the critics to the typewriter by calling it a trash epic. It's the same principle. You embrace the negative things and exaggerate them and make them your style. And then they can't use it against you. Well, they can, but...
Hook: So, do you ever think about shaving off your mustache?
John Waters: You know, one time I thought about it for an art project, what would it be if I just filmed it, like a loop that would play over and over again, and that's the only time I thought about it. Well, even if I had to go underground, like if I committed a crime and I wanted to go in disguise, I guess if I shaved it, and wore a wig, and let a beard grow that was gray and wear a baseball cap, that I could really get away with it. But no. Every day, I don't debate that. Should I? No. I don't even know I have it. I've had it since I was 19 and I'm 63. If I did shave it off, I think it might be like, it is where the sun don't shine.
John Waters' talk, "This Filthy World," at 4:30pm Friday, November 6, at Culbreth Theatre, will have a limited number of tickets released at the door that day. Hairspray screens at 7pm, Friday, November 6, at Newcomb Hall. Waters introduces Pink Flamingos at 10pm that evening, also at Newcomb Hall.
And he drops by the "Dirty Pink Polyester" Dance Party at the Southern from 10pm Friday to 2am. Drink o' the night is the Pink Fetish, and the ladies of CLAW and the C-ville Derby Dames make a special appearance. Tickets are $10– $5 for 21-year-old UVA students.


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Rating: no stars
Address: 3435 St-Laurent Blvd. (corner Sherbrooke St.)
Phone: 514-845-5115
Website: www.restauranticone.com
Open: Mon.-Wed. 5:30 p.m. to 11 p.m.; Thurs.-Sat. 5:30 p.m. to Midnight
Reservations: Recommended
Wheelchair access: No
Cards: All major
Vegetarian friendly: Not especially
Parking: On the street with meters
Price range: Appetizers: $11-$16; main courses $22-$64; desserts $8
MONTREAL - Restaurant reviewers who favour star ratings often question how best they be attributed. In my experience, what happens is that the stars fall by the wayside during an inferior meal, and seem to stack up endlessly on the good nights. When things go right, it's a starry night. But when things go wrong, you start searching for reasons — any reasons! — to recommend a restaurant. And when you run out of reasons, you also run out of stars. By the end of my night at Icône, my star account was overdrawn
Icône is located on The Main in the heart of the former restaurant row between Sherbrooke St. and Pine Ave. We 30-, 40- and 50-somethings who grew up in this fair city are all too familiar with this stretch of St-Laurent because when you were young it's where you went to have fun. And if you weren't here for fun, you were here to dine because many fabulous restaurants once flourished on this strip, whereas today you can count the decent restaurants on one hand.
The space that houses Icône was formerly occupied by two of Montreal's most happening restaurants: Luna and Boulevards. I remember both well: the hustle, the chic crowd and the tough time I had booking a table at either. After their runs, the location was taken over by a number of restaurants, every one worse than the last. And like an increasing number of restaurants on this Montreal's most famous artery it even sat boarded up for a time.
What made me take notice when Icône opened last June was certainly not the name (self-aggrandizing yet meaningless) or the décor (best described as a study in insignificance), but the talent behind the stoves, Charles-Emmanuel Pariseau. A former executive chef at both Leméac and Le Locale, Pariseau is known as a solid bistro cook with flair. Yet despite his obvious food smarts my meal at Icône came apart at the seams. But it wasn't just the food that failed; it was everything.
Though kind, our waiter was such an amateur that I got the impression he was most likely a busboy subbing for a waiter that didn't show. The room was practically empty on the Tuesday night I visited. The only other service staff member was a bartender who spent most of his night chatting to the waiter.
The room was dark and the background music consisted of jarring, B-side disco tunes. Menus arrived, but it was a full half-hour before orders were taken. And then a seemingly interminable wait followed until the food hit the table. I'm not big on bread in restaurants, but when there are long waits involved I'm happy to have something to nibble. Alas, none was served.
The wine order also took forever. The wine list is quite interesting, two pages of reds and whites, fairly priced and international. But the busboy/waiter hadn't a clue whether the South African white we were interested in was oaky. He left to ask someone, and a while later returned to inform us that he didn't think it was woody and that apparently the person who designed the wine list dislikes woody wines. How reassuring! Frankly, it would have been faster had I Googled it. It took him even longer to serve the red wine, which he finally brought to the table and announced, "Here it is. We had to find it." Find it? Like was it next door or something?
Eventually the food showed up, four plates, none appealing. The waiter highly recommended the octopus salad. He shouldn't have bothered. A single tentacle was served on a bed of sour cream with sliced olives and "panzanelle," a take on the classic Italian bread and tomato salad consisting of tomato chunks, slices of cucumber and a crouton. Everything had a mushy texture, and the use of sour cream was all wrong with the Italian-meets-Mediterranean drive of the dish.
The next appetizer, a spaghetti squash tartlet, didn't so much drive as crash and burn. Topped with a dollop of ricotta salata and shredded endive, and surrounded with swirls of brown sauce (I'm thinking reduced balsamic vinegar), the dish arrived stone cold, resulting in a clammy and tasteless tart. I can't believe that dish actually came from a restaurant kitchen.
I was a tad more enthusiastic about a plate of guinea hen and duck croquettes. Served with golden beets and roasted onions, the croquettes were quite nice and the beets were well-cooked (how's that for a compliment?). But the Thousand Island vinaigrette and truffled egg yolk underneath it all formed a pool of nothingness. There were slivers of ricotta salata on this dish too, but I'm still trying to figure out why.
And then there was the shrimp appetizer. Served with overcooked gnocchi in a tomato cream sauce, the two large, head-on prawns perched atop the pasta looked promising. What a shame they were as mushy as mashed potatoes. I still shudder at the memory of the mouthfeel on that one. Ugh.
After another endless wait, the waiter arrived with our three main courses, one fish, one chicken and one rabbit. The fish, turbot from Gaspésie, was served with a purée of beans with brown butter, chanterelles, brussels sprout leaves and a "vierge" sauce flavoured with chorizo sausage.
Frankly, obvious joking aside, if it's seasoned with sausage it's hardly a vierge sauce. But more importantly, the fish was a disaster: served in bits and overcooked to such an extent that it was hard to differentiate it from the bean purée.
As for the chicken, it was a rock cornish game hen, split and deep-fried, with a soft-boiled egg inside. Accompaniments included roasted baby turnips, new potatoes and greens, along with honey and a smear of sour cream. (What's with all the sour cream?) And though the egg cooked inside the chicken was somewhat clever, the chicken itself was both unevenly and under-cooked.
Was anything good? Yes, one dish, rabbit pappardelle with leeks. The pasta was al-dente, the rabbit meat was tender and abundant, and the leeks had that ideal melting-but-not-mushy consistency. That said, for the life of me I couldn't taste the foie gras shavings and cheddar cheese listed in the menu description. Perhaps they simply melted into the mix. Whatever, it was delicious.
By the end of the meal, I had got used to pouring my wine and water, but when the dessert menus failed to make an appearance and I spotted the waiter in deep conversation with the bartender across the now empty room, I took matters into my own hands and — a first for me — yelled (in French, bien sûr), "Can we please see the dessert menus?"
My patience was wearing thin and the odd desserts didn't help. There was a plate of brownie chunks served with balls of whipped cream and hay ice cream that tasted like a barn. There was a strawberry dessert, with more whipped cream, an excellent strawberry sorbet and bits of white cake that tasted like mattress stuffing. And finally there was a panna cotta flavoured with a verbena jus served with beet sorbet. I like the panna cotta, but the beet sorbet? Eesh.
Besides the rabbit dish, the only other good thing about my $100-per-person meal at Icône was that I managed to nab a parking spot right across the street from the restaurant. And so did my dining companions. Not one but two parking spots on this part of St-Laurent at night near restaurant row? Unheard of!
And also telling.
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SAG Awards Celebrations Continue at Weinstein's After Party!
The stars kept the party going after last night's Screen Actors Guild Awards at the Weinstein Company's bash held at Sunset Tower in LA. Mad Men's Christina Hendricks cuddled up to her husband, Geoffrey Arend, while her co-star Jon Hamm posed for a picture with Glee's Chord Overstreet. Dianna Agron let loose with Helena Bonham Carter as Justin Timberlake partied alongside a pal nearby. The cast of Modern Family celebrated their big win, with Ty Burrell chatting up Matthew Morrison, as The King's Speech's Colin Firth mingled with his famous friends. Tobey Maguire and his wife Jennifer Meyer showed their support for all the evening's honorees, like best actress winner Julianna Margulies, who threw a happy arm around pal Kyra Sedgwick. Mila Kunis, meanwhile, raised a glass with her Black Swan director Darren Aronofsky.
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Heads roll at Citigroup over fraud in MexicoMay 14, 2014: 11:27 AM ET
Citigroup (C) has axed another 11 employees over the embarrassing and costly fraud unearthed at the bank's Mexican subsidiary Banamex.
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Citi said its ongoing investigation has identified additional employees who could be at fault and expects that several will receive disciplinary action. The bank previously announced the firing of one individual related to the fraud.
"The financial impact of this fraud has been significant," Citi CEO Michael Corbat said in the memo, but the "impact to our credibility is harder to calculate."
Related: Citi CEO says employees broke the rules
The New York bank already took a $235 million loss from the loan fraud, which involved misappropriated funds to Banamex client Oceanografia, a Mexican oil services company that had been a key supplier to state-owned oil company Pemex.
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Korede, the narrator of the story, is a highly efficient and responsible nurse who is falling in love with one of her doctor colleagues. Unfortunately, her little sister Ayoola has the inconvenient habit of killing off her boyfriends and calling her older sister to help her out of the mess. And to make matters worse, she has just met the doctor who Korede has a crush on! Braithwaite is a graduate of Creative Writing and Law from Kingston University. She lives in Lagos, Nigeria.


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CLEVELAND, Ohio – Sophomore running back Manny Sicre (Miami, Fla./Belen Jesuit Preparatory) recorded 91 yards on the ground and another 83 through the air with two total touchdowns, but a last-minute score led Frostburg State University (Md.) to a 17-16 upset of Case Western Reserve University in the Spartans' 2012 home opener at Case Field.
The Spartans (2-1) drop their second-straight home opener, but still maintain a 50-7 overall record since the beginning of the 2007 season. The Bobcats improve to 2-1 with the victory.
Case led 16-10 until the final minute, but FSU quarterback Ken Emmons threw the game-winning score to running back Chuky Iweh with just 43 seconds remaining on the clock.
The Spartans blocked both a field goal and a punt in the game, but FSU racked up 396 yards of offense and held a decided advantage in time of possession, 36:05 to 23:55.
After the first possession of the game resulted in a Spartan punt, FSU took possession and marched 86 yards on 14 plays, scoring when Iweh leaped over the goal line pile for a one-yard touchdown run. Jonathan Adams hit the extra point at the 6:21 mark as the Bobcats converted three third downs on the drive and burned 6:21 off the game clock.
The Spartans came right back on the following possession and found the end zone when senior quarterback Erik Olson (Bethel Park, Pa./Bethel Park) connected with Sicre for a 15-yard TD on a screen pass. Freshman Won Kun Park (Daejon, South Korea/Kimball Union Academy, N.H.) hit the extra point with 2:20 left in the first quarter, capping a 10-play, 65-yard drive.
The game then went scoreless for the next period of play with the Spartans foiling an opportunity for FSU at the 4:55 mark of the second quarter when senior defensive end Adam Watson (Mentor, Ohio/Mentor) blocked a 27-yard field goal attempt to end a 5:09 drive.
Several drives later, FSU broke through with an eight-play, 62-yard drive that culminated in a 17-yard field goal by Adams with 12 seconds left before halftime.
Early in the third quarter, the Spartans grabbed the momentum as Watson recorded another block on a Bobcat punt, giving Case possession at the visitor 29. The offense then put together an eight-play drive and found the end zone for a second time when Sicre rushed in from two yards out. The extra point was missed and the Spartans led 13-10 with 9:02 left in the period.
Both defenses tightened again and it wasn't until a Park field goal with 4:58 remaining did either team score. The freshman's third field goal of 2012 made the score 16-10 with just minutes remaining.
However, FSU took the following drive 81 yards on 10 plays and scored the deciding TD as Emmons scrambled and found Iweh for a six-yard scoring pass. Emmons keyed the drive with runs of 16 and 32 yards.
The Spartans final drive resulted in an interception as the Bobcat defense sealed the one-point upset.
Offensively, Sicre's 91 rushing yards came on 27 carries, while his 83 receiving yards came on three catches with a long of 54. Olson completed 10-of-21 for 136 yards.
Defensively, senior linebackers Kevin Nossem (Munster, Ind./Munster) and Wade Self (Hawthorn Woods, Ill./Lake Zurich) each recorded season highs with 16 and 13 tackles, respectively. Senior nose guard Michael Harris (Shaker Heights, Ohio/Shaker Heights) posted 1.5 sacks, while senior outside linebacker Michael Fioramonti (Loxahatchee, Fla./Seminole Ridge) recorded his first career interception.
Emmons led FSU with game-highs of 221 yards passing and 93 yards rushing. Running back Michael Fourth had 58 yards on the ground and caught six balls for 60 yards. On defense, end Aaron Gruber totaled 13 tackles and a sack, while linebacker Roman Pinkett recorded the clinching interception.
The Spartans hit the road for the third time in four weeks with a third night game at Ohio Wesleyan University next Saturday, September 22 at 7:00 p.m. at Selby Stadium in Delaware.